question about softirqs

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

Hi.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:12:58AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl) wrote:
> Wouldn't the even better solution be to get rid of softirqs
> all-together?

And move tasklets into some thread context?

Only if we are ready to fix 7 times rescheduling regressions compared to
kernel threads (work queue actually). At least that's how tasklet
behaved compared to work queue 1.5 years ago in the simplest
and quite naive test where tasklet/work rescheduled iself number of
times:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=119462472517405&w=2

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov